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Sports & Leisure
Welcome to the sports and leisure pages. Develop maintains a presence on the Bromley Sports Disability Panel. This provides a voice for expressing the need for local organisations to offer welcoming sports and leisure activities in the borough that are positive about extending their services to include people with mental health issues.
We have an interest in ensuring people with mental illness have access to choice in sports and leisure, and also in encouraging activity as an opportunity to increase mental wellness and promote healthy lifestyles.
We work with a number of organisations, such as leisure centres, gymnasiums, the parks department, and voluntary walking groups, to ensure fair and equal access and a warm welcome to mental health service users.
Develop also has a position on the Pro-Active Bromley committee and has been invited to be part of the steering group for Pro-Active South London. This inclusive and active steering group will provide a clear platform for those with a stakehold in sport and physical activity to influence and shape how inclusive and active actions are delivered in the sub regions.
We should all be involved in promoting social inclusion because:
- Common mental health problems affect up to one in six of the general population at any one time. Almost everyone will know someone who has had mental health problems at some point in their lives.
- People who cope with mental ill-health are equally capable of making valuable contributions to sport. David Beckham, one of this country's great sporting achievers, has talked openly about his own challenge in dealing with obsessive compulsive disorder.
What's in this for you?
In this section you will be able to find:
- Services that are supporting welcoming access to sports and leisure services for people with mental ill-health.
- Events about sports and leisure, social inclusion and mental health.
- Evidence and policy - Government and sports organisations guidance on creating a real welcome for people with mental health problems in the sports and leisure sector and how to improve the organisation you work in to be more welcoming and supportive to people with mental ill-health.
- Guidance and tools that can be used to help people plan their access to welcoming sports and leisure services.
- News - stories about people's positive experiences of sports and leisure services in the borough.
If you would like more information about social inclusion and mental health, Develop can also offer you:
- Discussion Forum - A place to ask questions, find support and obtain advice on increasing the participation of people with mental health issuers in sports and leisure activities in Bromley and beyond and about what to do if issues relating to mental health arise in your organisation, club or society. (Available to registered site users).
- Training events about social inclusion, sports and leisure services and mental healthand about mental ill-health (from handling stress and promoting mental well-being and/or recovery through to awareness training about mental illness).
If you would like more information please contact: sportsNET@developbromley.com
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Good sports to bring community spirit to Olympics
27th Aug 2010
A new national programme to get millions of people playing games ahead of the 2012 Olympics hopes to leave a lasting legacy of community spirit in the UK and Ireland.
The Spots v Stripes campaign, led by Cadbury and supported by national charity Groundwork, has been designed to get people of all ages and walks of life rediscovering the spirit of play and light-hearted competition.
Organisers are inviting people to choose a team - Spots or Stripes - sign up to the website and begin playing games - from thumb-wrestling to five-a-side football.
Over the next two years, players will be able to win points for their team by organising and playing games in their schools, workplaces and neighbourhoods.
A national network of ‘games ambassadors’ and 2000 volunteers will take Spots v Stripes nationwide, including hard to reach and disadvantaged groups, using games as a catalyst to help build stronger communities.
They will also help local voluntary organisations, community groups, tenant associations and youth and staff clubs to organise imaginative games events in their areas.
A nationwide Spots v Stripes tour is planned for the summer, with large city events in Glasgow, Leeds, London and Birmingham.
With the help of Groundwork, Cadbury will also work alongside local communities in cities including Birmingham, Sheffield, Dublin and Reading to help improve community spaces for playing games.
Groundwork chief executive, Tony Hawkhead, said: ‘Spots v Stripes is a fantastic opportunity to engage communities in events and activities that help neighbours get to know one another, break down barriers and build community spirit.
‘Working together with our longstanding partner Cadbury, Groundwork will be using Spots and Stripes as a platform to encourage wide-ranging discussion and dialogue in these communities. Our 30 years of experience tells us that these conversations can often be the springboard to getting people involved in a wide range of projects that can transform the social and environmental fabric of neighbourhoods at all levels of society.’
Nick Bunker, president of Kraft Foods UK and Ireland, said the goal was ‘to use the power of playing games to unite and strengthen communities - leaving the nation with the ideas and inspiration to continue playing games in the future’.
Cadbury will commission independent research to evaluate the impacts and social benefits of the programme on communities and identify lessons for future initiatives.
Article by Jill Theobald
More information: http://www.spotsvstripes.com/
Bromley R and Bs welcomes budding footballers
15th Jul 2010
Bromley R and Bs will be resuming summer training on Friday 16th July at 1pm, and would be delighted to see any new people wishing to play.
The group is open to anybody over the age of 18 and a resident of Bromley.
Training sessions take place at Queens Mead Road Recreation Ground (off Glassmill Lane), Shortlands, Bromley. (Map Link)
For further information please contact Julian on 0791 706 7342.
Sessions will be every Monday from 12 to 3pm and Friday 1pm till 4pm.
What Do Coaches Need? Help Coaching for London with their survey
4th Jul 2010
Coaching for London is in the process of engaging with sports coaches to identify what their support needs are locally. In a move to provide detailed information to Governing Bodies of Sport, the sub-regional Coaching System Support Networks have launched an on-line survey.
The information gathered will be used to develop coaching strategies across London and will guide the provision of training opportunities through the Mayor's Legacy Skills Fund.
The Coaching Development Managers in the five PRO-ACTIVE Partnerships in London have created a 'what coaches want' survey online to gather coaches' views on their support needs.
The survey is being targeted at coaches of all levels; volunteer and paid coaches; club and community coaches; school coaches; coach employers and Governing Body coaches.
The survey can be accessed by clicking here and will be live until Wednesday 1 September 2010.
For more information, contact Ricky Pattenden, Pro-Active West London Coaching Development Manager at ricky.pattenden@brunel.ac.uk / 07920 751628.
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